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sunk into abject inferiority to the cranks of modern times, the refuters of Newton, the proposers of perpetual motions; has hitherto not been adequately explained. But what better account of the matter could one desire than that in physics the Hellenic element of Aristotle's nature, that Greek estheticism which forbade analysis and required that the phenomenon should be contemplated in its concreteness here governed him. that this was the cause is shown by the fact that all the other Greeks who shared the same prejudice were equally unsuccessful, while the few who did not share it, Hipparchus, Eratosthenes, Posidonius, Ptolemy, Archimedes, were eminently successful in the physical sciences. In zöology, Asclepial Aristotle, scion of a family whose every member, from the further prehistoric times, had been trained in medicine from childhood up, shared no Hellenic repugnance to dissection. Nor did that repugnance

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